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significant others.(Shining City)(Theater review)
Byline: Adam Green
Conor McPherson, who explored the loneliness and fear of the rural Irish soul in The Weir, returns to the New York stage this month with his exhilarating new play Shining City, in which he shows that his urban-dwelling countrymen are equally tortured. Oliver Platt is John, a guilt-ridden adulterer, literally haunted by the death of his wife, and the superb Brian F. O'Byrne, who played his cards close to his vestments as a possibly wayward priest in last season's Doubt, is John's therapist, a lapsed man of the cloth with dark secrets of his own. . . . Guilt, secrets, shattering revelations--sounds like a family gathering. But, trust me, your most gruesome dinner with loved ones couldn't hold a candle to the scabrous birthday party in Festen, David Eldridge's stage adaptation of the 1998 Dogma film of the same name. Larry Bryggman is the 60-year-old birthday boy, Ali MacGraw is ...
- Shining City.(Theater review)
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Rooney, David Falls, Robert May 10, 2006 700+ words
...factor for the haunted Dubliners of the playwright's "Shining City." Reflecting with subtlety and compassion on the guilt...McPherson are contemporaries in their mid-30s, but the "Shining City" author is arguably closer in spirit to 77-year-old...
- Shining City.(Theater review)(Brief article)
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Harris, Paul November 20, 2007 700+ words
...Genebach Irish playwright Conor McPherson's searing examination of two lonely men trying to cope in an unforgiving world, "Shining City" gets its first post-Broadway regional production in this sensitive mounting by D.C's Studio Theater. Studio a...
- 'Shining City' beams at Undermain: THEATER REVIEW: DuBose, Ramirez equally...
- Newspaper article from: Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX) September 23, 2007 700+ words
...spooky tales about ghosts and vampires. Shining City is remarkable in that the person onstage...star of the show. The therapist in Shining City is onstage constantly during the play...re both on the Undermain stage in Shining City. Through Oct. 20 at Undermain Theatre...
- 'Shining City' is fatally dulled by the feeblest of dialogue.
- Newspaper article from: Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) May 11, 2006 700+ words
...Conor McPherson's empty, rambling Shining City, which opened Tuesday night on Broadway...from frequent incoherence, is that Shining City is bland. You sit there waiting for...y'know? Oh, yeah. You know. Shining City Written by Conor McPherson, directed...
- Undermain's 'Shining City' continues tradition of ghostly plays:...
- Newspaper article from: Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX) September 22, 2007 700+ words
...conversation in Conor McPherson's Shining City, which opens tonight in the company...same air we are. The theater can." Shining City marks the opening of the first Undermain...including Mr. Ramirez and fellow Shining City star Shannon Kearns-Simmons. These...
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- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Hofler, Robert July 26, 2005 700+ words
Conor McPherson's new play "Shining City" opens on Broadway at the Schoenfeld...also been cast. McPherson directs. "Shining City" is his first play to be presented...in 1999. The Broadway run of "Shining City" follows an engagement at San Francisco...
- 'Shining' dims for fall.(producers plan to cancel 'Shining City')(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Hofler, Robert August 4, 2005 700+ words
...good week for new plays on Broadway. The producers of "Shining City" have announced they will cancel their fall production of...claiming to have seen the ghost of his deceased wife. "Shining City" had been announced to play San Francisco's Curran Theater...
- Thesp's 'Shining' moment.(Brian F. O'Byrne to star in 'Shining City' )(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Cox, Gordon January 6, 2006 700+ words
...longer in "Doubt," Brian F. O'Byrne is headed for "Shining City." Irish thesp, who leaves the Broadway transfer of the...for his next role, a therapist in Conor McPherson's "Shining City." O'Byrne, a 2004 Tony winner for his role O'Byrne...